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Malala Yousafzai Shares Nobel Peace Prize Win; New Protests Over St. Louis Police Shooting; North And South Korea Exchange Artillery Fire; Air Passenger Jokes: "I Have Ebola"

Aired October 10, 2014 - 06:00   ET

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CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: Breaking news, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize just announced and it is 17-year-old Malala. The youngest winner ever. Sharing the prize just years after she was shot by the Taliban.

ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: Breaking overnight, protests, anger, and arrests in St. Louis. A peaceful vigil for a black teenager shot and killed by police turns ugly. Flags burned, windows smashed, police in riot gear. They say the teenager shot first, the family claims he was just carrying a sandwich.

MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR: Missing , North Korea's leader Kim Jong- Un a no-show at an important celebration honoring his late father. The leader now not seen for a month, his actions launching new speculation. Is he still in charge of that nation?

CUOMO: Your NEW DAY starts right now.

ANNOUNCER: This is NEW DAY with Chris Cuomo, Kate Bolduan, and Michaela Pereira.

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CUOMO: Good morning, welcome to NEW DAY. It's Friday, October 10th, 6:00 in the East, Alisyn Camerota by my side, good to have you.

We do have breaking news. The Nobel Peace Prize goes to children's rights crusaders, one of them the youngest winner ever, a young woman with an amazing story, Pakistani teen and education advocate, Malala Yousafzai. She shares the honor with Kailash Satyarthi, who has been fighting against child slave labor in India for decades.

CAMEROTA: The announcement was made within the past hour from Norway. The secretive Nobel committee saying the decision was more difficult this year than usual. It received a record 278 nominations for the big prize.

Let's talk about it with senior international correspondent, Nic Robertson, with the latest for us from London and we're also joined on the phone by chief international correspondent, Christiane Amanpour, who has spent a lot of time with Malala.

But Nic, let's start with you, people were expecting Malala to win last year. This year, was it a surprise?

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: I think it was a surprise, but perhaps the biggest surprise this year, the bookmakers had been favoring her. The pope had been the favorite.

But I think a lot of people will be gratified to see that she has this. It really will be inspirational for young girls in particular, the world over to see that she has been recognized at this level.

But also, the Nobel committee there deciding to link her award with that of this Indian child's right activist as well, he, a Hindu, she, a Muslim from Pakistan.

So almost, you know, a message to India and Pakistan, you have your differences, your different identities, but you have a common goal, a common challenge, the world does as well, to educate children.

He, by his own words, has freed about 80,000 children from servitude created programs like rug mark, to show that rugs made in India have not been made by children working in servitude, working in terrible conditions.

But for Mala Yousafzai, really for her, expected last year, she gets it this year. This will make a lot of people happy. She's been such a champion, such a strong advocate for girls' education.

CAMEROTA: Christiane, can you hear us?

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (via telephone): Yes. Of course, I can.

CAMEROTA: Good. We understand that -- what a great message for Malala to have won and of course, you have sat down with her, interviewed her. Tell us your thoughts.

AMANPOUR: Well, it's obviously a massive message, but particularly let's consider where we are in the world today. She's a young Muslim girl, shot by a Muslim extremist, the Taliban, at a time now when we are watching ISIS butcher girls and women for doing precisely what Malala tried to do several years ago.

So in many, many ways, it resonates incredibly. Not just because of the link between her co-share as well, India and Pakistan, that's the peace part of the Nobel Peace Prize.

But in terms of being an activist, at such a young age for girls and women's rights, across the board as well as most importantly, education. I sat down and interviewed her last year in New York, when her book came out in fact.

And she was somebody who demonstrated an intellectual rigor, a poise and a gentle girlish humor all at the same time, able to sit and be interviewed in a public arena, with a live audience, and was very, very funny, poignant, moving, but determined. She said even though they shot me, they cannot kill my spirit.

CAMEROTA: That's beautiful.

CUOMO: Christiane, in some ways, overcoming the bullet wound was the least of her challenges. Tell us what you learned about Malala in terms of what she's breaking through and what she's overcoming by age, by geography, by culture?

AMANPOUR: Well, indeed, you're right. Although I must say that it took amazing and massive efforts by British surgeons here in Birmingham to save her life, she very nearly died. Once she got over that and back on her feet and had her voice again, she then continued to broadcast this voice for peace and for girl's rights.

And she kept saying, even at a young age. Before she was shot, she kept saying it is my right to be educated. It is my right to go to the market. It is my right to be a normal human being and I will continue to fight for that.

I think the sad and challenging thing is that she is still in England. She's still here because obviously she's getting educated and her treatment is being followed. But she is not welcome, really, in large parts of Pakistan. And that's a big, big shame.

You know, it really points out the incredible challenges of trying to get girls and women their basic rights and frankly children all over. If you look at U.N. statistics about the number of people who are still out of school and still illiterate.

The vast majority obviously are children and it is terribly, terribly difficult for their rights to be managed and to be approved. And she's still fighting that fight.

CAMEROTA: Nic Robertson, we want to bring you back in. The Nobel committee said that this year was more difficult than ever. Why is that?

ROBERTSON: I think as Christiane has talked about there, this is a time when there just isn't peace in the world. In fact we're seeing conflict only getting worse and spreading particularly from ISIS in Syria and Iraq.

And there are -- have been no clear big leaders in bringing together peacemakers and leading anyone out of the conflict at the moment. The conflict seems to be getting worse, more intractable and escalating.

So I think this is in part what the Nobel Peace Committee mean. They didn't have names presented to them that had that obvious peace link. I think again, by linking Pakistan and India, these are two nuclear- powered nations that in the past half-century have fought three wars.

And caused considerable consternation around the world as they've done that, about what the next step in those wars might be. This is a very powerful message that you have a common thread across your border, the education of girls, the education of children, helping the next generation to become participants in the economy, in the politics of your countries. So it is a global message, but it's also a message here for peace on that continent at an important time when we're not seeing it in other places around the world.

CAMEROTA: Nic and Christiane, so well said. Thanks so much for all the background. Great to talk to you this morning. Both such beacons, both of the winners, of inspiration in this time as Nic just pointed out.

CUOMO: Christiane very helpful in understanding. This kid is only 17. She's overcome so much, for her to have this strong a voice where she comes from and the cultural restrictions, amazing.

And Nic's point, that you could think splitting the award is a way of hedging your bets. Here, there's a larger message in seems, India and Pakistan, obviously so much conflict. A young person and a person who has been doing it his entire life, showing they're joined in the same struggle for peace.

CAMEROTA: Bringing them together is really powerful.

CUOMO: And the biggest message, of course, that it was hard to find a leader in the peace movement right now, given the state of affairs. It will be interesting to see who wins it, if anybody, next year.

All right, other breaking news for you overnight, keep your eyes on St. Louis today, there was a tense standoff after a black teen was shot and killed by an off-duty cop.

The most heated protests we've seen since the shooting of black teen, Michael Brown in nearby Ferguson. Angry words, vandalism, confrontations with police, leading to two arrests, the circumstances surrounding the shootings are different, but the anger, very much the same. Sara Sidner has the latest for us.

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SARA SIDNER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Overnight, Shaw Boulevard turned chaotic. Police using pepper spray on the crowd of protesters of the tense standoff quickly escalates.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The large knife came flying out of the crowd.

SIDNER: Police say they were asking the crowd of protesters to disburse around midnight when this knife here on the ground was hurled towards the officers, hitting one of them in the shoulder.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It shows the emotions and how quickly the situation can turn.

SIDNER: Protesters also smashing the windows of a police car, someone throwing a brick at this police SUV.

SAM DOSTON, POLICE CHIEF, ST. LOUIS POLICE DEPARTMENT: I understand the emotions, but there's some things you can't tolerate and that's one of them. SIDNER: What started out as a peaceful vigil early Thursday evening later reignited anger. Over the killing of black teenager, Vonderrit Myers, shot by a white off-duty St. Louis police officer working a security job.

Police say Myers was no stranger to them. Myers pictured here for a gun conviction back in June. An autopsy revealed the 18-year-old was shot seven or eight times. The fatal wound a gunshot to his right cheek.

The call for justice reminiscent of the outrage over unarmed teenager, Michael Brown's shooting only two months ago. Allegedly with his hands up, Brown was shot six times by a white police officer, only 12 miles away in Ferguson, Missouri.

A grand jury is currently hearing the case and will decide if charges will be brought against Officer Darren Wilson. But this most recent shooting may be different. Police say Myers fired a 9-millimeter pistol three times at the officer.

The officer then firing a total of 17 times. The weapon recovered at the scene. Myers' family members insist, though, that the teenager was unarmed and holding a sandwich at the time.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We have a right to have a life just like anyone else.

SIDNER: And some people are building their own narrative, expressing distrust of the St. Louis Police Department.

AKBAR MUHAMMAD, COALITION OF MICHAEL BROWN: It's a clear case of this young man being gunned down by insensitive white officer who was off duty. He chased him off a corner.

SIDNER: Protesters pushing the limit with police and burning the American flag. In this divided community, racial tensions and nerves on edge again.

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CAMEROTA: Thanks so much to Sara for that.

We also have breaking news -- just coming in, North and South Korea reportedly exchanging artillery fire as questions swirl around the whereabouts of Kim Jong-Un.

Now overnight, the 31-year-old North Korean leader was a no-show, failing to appear at a palace ceremony honoring his late father and grandfather.

According to North Korea's news agency flowers were presented in Kim's absence. So let's bring in Paula Hancocks live from Seoul for more. What do we know, Paula?

PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Alisyn, we have just confirmed that the exchange of fire did take place. We know that this Friday afternoon, local time. There were a number of anti-North Korea propaganda balloons that were being sent from South Korea by activists over to North Korea.

Now we understand from the Defense Ministry here that North Korea fired at those balloons, a little while later. We understand that they actually found some of those North Korean shells inside South Korean territory, which is when the South Koreans announced they were about to fire.

They warned the North Koreans and fired 40 rounds of machine gun fire. We understand from the Defense Ministry, there are no casualties in South Korea. Of course, we don't know the situation in North Korea. It's unlikely we will hear that.

But this is obviously the latest in a number of tensions that we have been seeing recently, the two sides exchanging fire. Earlier this week we saw the two sides, the patrol boats from both sides exchanging fire in the maritime border just off the west coast of Korea.

And it comes at a time as well that we had a high-level delegation coming to Seoul from North Korea wanting to talk peace and the leader is nowhere to be seen -- Alisyn.

CAMEROTA: Paula, let's talk about that, the leader, nowhere to be seen. When is the last time that we saw him and do we think that Kim Jong-Un's sister is in charge of the country?

HANCOCKS: We saw him five weeks ago. This is the longest that we haven't seen the North Korean leader. He is not camera-shy, he is quite often in the public eye, and clearly seems to enjoy it. He's always been talked about by state-run media.

So it's very unusual he hasn't been seen. We knew that he had a limp, we saw it on television. We heard from state-run media that he had been suffering discomfort. An unprecedented admission there was something wrong.

I have been asking many experts here in South Korea, whether or not his sister may be in control there. They say it's unlikely. They say it's North Korea so it's not impossible. But they say it's unlikely.

If in fact he was incapacitated, they would assume that his second in control, the vice marshal of the military would be in control. But at this point, they simply don't know -- Alisyn.

CAMEROTA: Paula Hancocks, thanks so much for all of the information. Great to see you. Let's go over to Michaela for more news.

PEREIRA: All right, good morning, everybody. It's 13 minutes past the hour. Here's a look at your headlines. Turkey's foreign minister insisting he is against ISIS and its actions in Kobani, but still refusing to send in troops to help save that Syrian city.

This as the militant group gains control of a third of the city. Turkey is asking for a buffer zone along its frontier with Syria. Critics however predict it will quickly become a place where moderate rebels will train to fight President Bashar Al-Assad's government.

A tip from a viewer to CNN's show, "THE HUNT" may have helped crack a nearly 40-year-old cold case. This tip led the FBI to exhume the body of a John Doe, who was killed in a car accident, buried in Alabama in 1981.

Now authorities believed that is the body of William Bradford Bishop Jr., a 10 most wanted fugitive, missing since the 1970s, profiled on "THE HUNT" in July. He was accused of killing his wife, mother and three sons back in 1976.

With a little luck that helped the Indianapolis Colts hold off the Houston Texans, 33-28 in Thursday night's football. Andrew Luck threw a pair of touchdown passes, giving the Colts a 24-0 first-half lead. The Colts barely held on. Two Houston fumbles in the closing minutes to escape with their fourth straight win.

Speaking of football, did you hear this? Reports say pop star, Katy Perry, will be the Super Bowl XLIX halftime performer. This is a bit of a surprise, considering that Perry made some comments at a recent interview that she wasn't, quote, "The kind of girl who would pay to play the Super Bowl."

As the NFL reportedly was asking artists to do. I'm betting there was a $100 million reasons as 100 million viewers to do it. The 2017 Super Bowl will be in Glendale, Arizona. Start planning your menus now. Get out the queso recipe.

We're just discussing --

CUOMO: She's not hurting her popularity --

PEREIRA: Is it the right -- demographic?

CUOMO: Super Bowl is so much bigger than sport.

PEREIRA: No, I'm talking about her. You know?

CUOMO: Who doesn't like her these days?

CAMEROTA: She has the catchiest songs.

PEREIRA: Bubble-gummy fun.

CUOMO: May be she didn't pay, but her record company did.

PEREIRA: You all tune in for Katy Perry? Crickets, crickets.

CUOMO: He was tapping his foot. He's trying not to violate man-law. He was tapping his foot. Who's the stage manager? It was like this a second ago.

PEREIRA: Doing the little shimmy shake.

How about you at home, do you think Katy Perry is a good choice, are you going to tune in for halftime? Who would you like to see? Go to Facebook.com/NewDay, tell us all about it, sound off, we'd like to hear.

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CUOMO: Roar --

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CAMEROTA: That is great. There he is, trying to pretend she's not into it.

Meanwhile, he says it was a joke, but no one on the plane was laughing when a passenger said, "I have Ebola and you're all screwed." Suddenly, the cabin fills with guys in hazmat suits. More on the alert and new screenings, next.

CUOMO: And startling new details about the man being held in the disappearance of Hannah Graham. Police are piecing together a possible link that Jesse Matthew may have to another student's disappearance and murder. But is there proof?

We'll look at it, ahead.

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CAMEROTA: It was a nerve-wracking two-hour ordeal for passengers on a U.S. Airways flight to the Dominican Republic when a so-called joke triggered a full-scale Ebola scare. A passenger setting off a panic when he stood up and shouted, quote, "I have Ebola, you're all screwed."

Everyone on the plane ordered to stay on the plane as hazmat crews stormed the cabin.

Let's bring in Alexandra Field live from JFK this morning.

So, this was all just a dumb joke, Alexandra?

ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, I guess that someone's idea of a good prank, Alisyn, I guess. I don't know. What it do successfully was it played into people's anxiety. At the same time, though, there are steps are being take ton try to calm people's fears and also steps to try to contain the threat of this virus.

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FLIGHT ATTENDANT: There's a situation. I need to have everybody to sit down.

FIELD (voice-over): That was the announcement from a flight attendant just before several health officials in full hazmat suits boarded U.S. Airways flight in the Dominican Republic. A passenger posted this video and local reports say the man said, "I have Ebola, you're all screwed."

FLIGHT ATTENDANT: Please get out of the way. Let them do their job. FIELD: The flight from Philadelphia was checked and cleared, but kept

passengers stuck on the plane for two hours, it's unclear what happened to the man who made the claim. This incident only the beginning of a new front in the fight to stop the spread of Ebola. Passengers leaving the hot zone will be checked for symptoms, answering questions and having their temperatures taken when they arrive stateside at five major U.S. airports -- New York City's JFK International, Newark, Washington, D.C. Dulles, Atlanta and Chicago O'Hare.

DR. THOMAS FRIEDEN, CDC DIRECTOR: We expect to see some patients with fever and that will cause some obvious and understandable concern at the airports.

FIELD: More than 50 million passengers traveled through JFK last year. But the new procedures will impact just a tiny fraction. Exams will be done if special areas designated by Customs and Border Protection. An onside CDC health officer will step in to evaluate any potential Ebola case. Passengers leaving Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea are already screened before boarding planes out of those countries.

GOV. CHRIS CHRISTIE (R), NEW JERSEY: Of course I'm concerned, I don't think there's anybody in the country who is not concerned about the situation with Ebola. We're not ready at the airports yet. But we will be.

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FIELD: All right. JFK will be the first airport to roll out the new screening process, that starts tomorrow. The other four airports should follow at some point next week. And they're also some similar plans to implement these types of screenings in London and Canada.

And, Alisyn, we won't be surprised if we see other countries taking similar steps to do this.

CAMEROTA: Right, right. Too bad there's no screening for dumb jokes beforehand.

Alexandra, thanks so much for the update.

Let's go to Chris.

CUOMO: And probably no real punishment for it, either, Alisyn. And that's another part of the problem. But there's some big question marks raised in the news around these issues today.

So, let's get some perspective. Let's bring in Dr. Kent Sepkowitz, an infectious disease specialist and deputy physician-in-chief at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and a contributor at "The Daily Beast", and Juliette Kayyem, CNN national security analyst and former assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security.

I'll start with you, Juliette. I don't think you can make a case against this guy that sticks. But how high is this on the list of stupid things to do, what this guy did on the airplane?

JULIETTE KAYYEM, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY ANALYST: I have two sons, ages 10 and seven and I think they know better. This is, and actually, Chris, he will probably be prosecuted for some disruption of airline travel, false alarms.

And -- but he's part of a bigger story which is going on right now, which is probably the biggest threat to the U.S. public health system, and public safety system isn't Ebola right now. It's the worried well. It's the pranksters. It's the hoaxes, it's all of this other activity that is generated by you know, one or two or three cases in the United States.

And so, that is why we have to be pretty firm against all of that background noise, because eventually you know, our public health system might begin to have to deal with future cases, which are going to come to the United States. We just have to be ready for it.

CUOMO: All right. So if the message is -- check yourself. You know, see this for what it is, not the worst of what it could be.

Then, Doctor, let me come to you, what do you think about the head of the CDC? Who says, the last thing we saw like this, was AIDS. This could be the next AIDS, says Dr. Frieden. Is that not, is that not alarmist?

DR. KENT SEPKOWITZ, INFECTIOUS DISEASE SPECIALIST: That's very alarming. I don't know that it's alarmist of him. He's a very thoughtful, cautious guy. It alarmed me when he said that.

I will say, though, that I think he's referring to the indifference by countries like the U.S. in terms of helping Africa with their outbreak. I think that the world stood still for way too long when HIV was happening. He's I think echoing a concern that he's worried that the world is standing still and not doing enough right now.

CUOMO: That's a helpful metaphor for the American audience to hear?

SEPKOWITZ: Certainly, woke everybody up. I think it's the right thing to, do I think we're focusing too much on one case in Dallas and not on the global epidemic that we're having.

CUOMO: So, let me get the take from both of you on the new screening procedures to be put in place. There are a lot of questions about them. It's interesting that you think it could be the next AIDS, head of the CDC. But you don't think you should restrict travel to the place where the Ebola is going on.

Do you think the screening procedures are window dressing? Or do you think they're going to be effective? Do you think there are going to be more false positives than anything else, Juliette?

KAYYEM: I think it's going to be a combination of all of them.

I mean, the fight against Ebola is only going to be successful when we kill it off. And doing so is going to take a sort of chisel approach to who has it, who's been exposed to it.

The airline screening rules are sort of more like a hammer. They may catch people. I'm not that optimistic about it. But there is something, and we shouldn't deny it, to having the U.S. government take seriously this threat, to try to calm what's a growing public panic.

And you know, as viewers are watching, there are things that you can do. For example, get your flu shot, because if you get a fever in the next six to eight weeks, you may be worried. There are other things that we can do to just calm the temperature.

But there's going to be false positives. All around and it's going to stress the system.

CUOMO: What do you think, Doc, screenings a good idea?

SEPKOWITZ: I think it's a complete waste of energy and resource. I think it is effective in making, creating political cover. But I don't think it's going to be effective at all. It's going to make a bigger mess than we already have and give a sense of false assurance, there's going to be nothing good to come from this.

I'm very surprised. We tried this in SARS. There's actually a very well-articulated medical literature on this, it didn't work then. And SARS was a much more contagious disease. If I had SARS, you could catch it.

CUOMO: It was airborne?

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SEPKOWITZ: Yes. Whereas if I had Ebola, you would not catch it. So I think there was a plausible rationale to do it with SARS and it did not work. We have evidence to that.

CUOMO: All right. We appreciate the takes from both of you, Juliette, Doctor, thank you very much for being with us.

One of the unknowns still is, did we learn from happened in Dallas? The hospital there is pushing back. We'll have to see what the next case, whether or not the hospital is ready, but that falls into the unknowns. So, thanks to both of you again.

Another story we want to tell but this morning. We have new details surfacing about the man held in the disappearance of Hannah Graham. There is a new link between the man you're looking at, Jesse Matthew, and another student's disappearance and murder.

This, as clashes break out in St. Louis over a police-involved shooting, while nearby Ferguson plan as weekend of protests because of the Michael Brown shooting, and the lack of any resolve there yet. We're going bring in legal analysts and weigh in on the reaction to these shootings, talk about how they're the same, and how they're very different.

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